Bunny Tales

Hey Starshines!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. The weather here was just perfect! T and I spent most of our time outside, enjoying the fresh air and vitamin D! Ginger too of course. She was chasing bunnies out of the yard after an "incident" on Friday. We have a ton of rabbits that come in and out of our yard, in fact, they make holes and have babies in our yard! We don't mind at all. Hey, they are just trying to live life just like us! :) Anyway, one got into our fenced in garden (still not sure how) and T had come home and called me outside. I didn't know what was going on and Ginger and I ran out. Oh boy, Ginger did not like the bunny in the garden. She was barking and chasing it back and forth trying to get in, while the poor bunny was trying to get out. The bunny kept hitting itself against the wire fence, frantic and scared. T finally got a hold of Ginger and lifted the fence and the bunny sprung out and took off. Poor thing. I was so upset I left carrots all over the yard as peace offering. So now Ginger is ultra protective when she sees a bunny, and she chases after them, but luckily doesn't come close. Phew, looks like that bunny set something off in her. She is crazy!!

T and I also did some baby browsing this weekend. We looked at cribs (we are going to wait for to find out the sex before we buy one, we want white for a girl and cherry wood for a boy. We also went to a few eco friendly baby boutiques, talk about pricey! I think my registry is going to be high end with all the organic and eco friendly things I want! Of course, some were reasonable, I just have to stop looking at "boutiques", I know there are a lot of bargains online. Anyway, it got us thinking about other furniture and things we would like to get once the baby is born. Like sectional sofas so we can have room for the 4 of us (hey, or little couch is snug with only us 3). But, all in good time. We are talking about a master bedroom/kitchen/rec room addition down the line. Good thing T is in home construction (yay for family businesses too)!

Last week in an effort to up my iron intake, I made a big pot of lentils with butter beans, kale, yellow squash, and lots of garlic. Mmm, this was delicious! I am going to try to have lentils once a week. Just to get the extra protein and iron.
Over the weekend we stopped at the juice bar for a little refresher, this was: grapefruit, apple, orange and ginger. I love citrus juice right now! My body craves it!
On Saturday night, I made Gena's high raw potato salad. I love this recipe! Perfect warm weather meal. Only, as you can see, I added to much water to the sauce and was a little too much. Still delicious, but too much dressing. On the side I had a kale salad with avocado and raw kraut and 2 rice patties, I picked up at Whole Foods. They are vegan, soy and gluten free, and not very good. That's all I'm going to say about that.
The people at Brad's Raw Chips loved all the fun ways I enjoy their yummy product so they sent me 2 bags to try out: Kale and Red Pepper. I love Brad's Chips, they are so versatile and delicious. The Red Pepper ones are a little too spicy for me. With Crohn's I don't do well with hot stuff, but I use to love it, so I would of definitely enjoyed these more back BC (before Crohn's). The Kale ones are perfect for dipping! I love them with hummus or another raw dip. So far I haven't come across a flavor I didn't enjoy! 2 thumbs up!

Have a great day all!